endite
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
endite (plural endites)
- One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
Verb[edit]
endite (third-person singular simple present endites, present participle enditing, simple past and past participle endited)
- Obsolete form of indite.
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 365:
- They speak of Job and his humility, / For clerics when they wish to can endite / Its praises nobly, and especially, / In men — they praise few women when they write.